W.F. Hooley performs Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg address delivered more than 35 years earlier at the dedication of the cemetery at Gettybsburg in 1863, built to house the dead from one of the bloodiest battles of the Amercian Civil War. This Hooley recording was recorded in New York by E. Berliner’s Gramophone , 1898 September 21 – housed at the Library of Congress – http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/berl:@field(NUMBER+@band(berl+136012))
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